Behind The Beautiful Forevers Stylistic Analysis

In Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo is more successful than Doris Pilkington, the author of Rabbit-Proof Fence,in conveying the challenges faced by the main characters. Katherine Boo used the two narrative techniques, dialogue and descriptive language in her passage. Katherine Boo used descriptive language in her story which helped the readers really understand the challenges faced by the main characters. An example of Boo’s descriptive language is,”...when strapping Hindu boys began playing cricket on the maidan, aiming their dives at his sorted piles, and sometimes his head...And these cricketers had just sent another Muslim kid to the hospital after smashing his head in with their bats.” Abdul and every other kids who live in poverty have to rummage through garbage in order to make a living. These kids have to now …show more content…
Boo puts in emotion to what she was saying. “Wake up fool, you think your work is dreaming.” Abdul’s mother says this and the quote shows that his mother is harsh towards him. Zehrunsia is expecting a lot from Abdul since he is the oldest. Boo shows this by dialogue. Boo’s dialogue shows the effect of Abdul’s life. In contrast, Pilkington’s dialogue was very simplistic. “I don’t know what that noise was...But we will go down and find out.” The author doesn’t put in any detail to what the characters are saying. Doris is trying to be straightforward with what the characters in the story are saying, but she is failing to put in any detail or emotion. Without any real detail or emotion, the story is just boring and not showing how the Aboriginals’ society is affecting the lives of the children living there. Katherine Boo, the author of “Beyond the Beautiful Forevers”, was more successful in conveying the theme of “Stolen Childhoods” and the challenges faced by the main characters. Her use of descriptive language and dialogue helped readers to understand how hard Abdul’s life